Problem with string???

thieg posted this at 14:11 — 12th September 2000.

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Hi,
I would like to check a string to verify that there is no
special caracters like : "*","\","/","|", and more...

I use the fonction mystring.search(x), with x the special caracter (like *).

It doesn't work because x must be a string and * is an operator.

I don't manage to change it to a string!!!

Any ideas???

Thanks a lot.

Gauthier

Mark Hensler posted this at 05:56 — 13th September 2000.

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What language? Javascript?

I'm not a javascript guru (by far), but try escaping the characters...
mystring.search(\x)

good luck,

Vincent Puglia posted this at 02:08 — 18th September 2000.

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Hi,

You could define your characters within a string.

var badChars = '()?|\/*';
data = "2d434/";
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
if (badChars.indexOf(data.substring(i, i+1)) != "-1")
alert(data.substring(i,i+1));

Vinny

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fairhousing posted this at 06:47 — 18th September 2000.

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anybody got a clue why this javascript want work? i didn't include the script tags and beginning and end of the code here.

it's supposed to parse a tracking url, like http://www.whatever.com?Bob

so that Bob would be printed out.

var URLString = window.location;
var start = URLString.indexOf("?");
var end = URLString.length;
var userName = URLString.substring(start,end);
document.write(userName);

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fairhousing posted this at 06:48 — 18th September 2000.

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oops, sorry for the above, thought i was posting a new topic.